![]() ![]() Trump’s eyebrow-raising choice of venue in Waco for his first rally came amid the 30th anniversary of a 51-day standoff and deadly siege between U.S. Cohen has already served time in prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes. Trump later reimbursed Cohen and his company logged the reimbursements as a legal expense. Trump could be indicted soon by a Manhattan grand jury investigating a $130,000 payment that Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, made as Trump was in the throes of his 2016 presidential campaign. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.” And 2024 is the final battle, it’s going to be the big one. Trump declared Saturday that his “enemies are desperate to stop us” and that “our opponents have done everything they can to crush our spirit and to break our will.” Some of Trump’s recent rhetoric, including at the rally, has echoed language he used before the Capitol insurrection by a mob of his supporters seeking to stop the transfer of power to Democrat Joe Biden, who won the presidential election. Trump said the Manhattan district attorney was investigating him “for something that is not a crime, not a misdemeanor, not an affair.” A grand jury hearing the case is expected to meet again on Monday. Trump declared his innocence in the Manhattan investigation into a hush money payment made during the 2016 election to porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier. It came one day after Trump raised the specter of violence should he become the first former president in U.S. Trump’s event at the airport grounds in Waco was part of a broader effort by the former president to use the potential indictment as a rallying cry for supporters to maintain his status as the GOP frontrunner in what is expected to be a crowded primary. ![]() “You will be vindicated and proud,” Trump said “The thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated, discredited and totally disgraced.” He then launched into a speech brimming with resentments and framed the probes, including a New York grand jury investigation, as political attacks on him and his followers. The extraordinary display opened Trump’s first rally of his 2024 Republican presidential campaign. ![]()
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